> where is the hip-hop version of that album

maybe Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves, or The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free ? first couple thoughts from the top of my head

aka The One Where Prince Kills Everyone Else On Stage Forever

This sounds like something they should be able to manage, by substituting solid state for the mechanical drive but otherwise leaving well enough alone. Floppy drive emulators (and MFM/RLL drive emulators) are a solved problem because the retro computing crowd has needed them for years. If it has an SD card slot, then updates can even be distributed the same way as before, except the medium is postage stamp sized. Use SD card slots where the whole card clicks into place and clicks out again when pressed, and it's pretty much just a miniaturized floppy drive as far as the user is concerned.

As a bicyclist, I do notice cars being smelly. Some more so than others, but it's one of several strong incentives to find roads with few cars to bike on.

Autopia, sponsored by Honda, is so horrible that after we rode it, my pre-teen son said, I"m never buying a Honda. The smell is really disgusting, and the ride is outdated; it's too slow to be exciting for all but the youngest kids now, especially for something themed as being a racetrack.

Yes, Disney needs to do some planning for the technology to electrify the attraction, as they need to keep the cars moving most of the time. That likely means induction charging while they're driving.

This is also a good time for Disney to think about how they would design a driving ride today, It may be time to do far more than just replace the smelly cars with electric versions.

Constantly jaywalking pedestrians and cyclists weaving in and out everywhere in a chaotic downtown core are "a well-defined problem"? I dunno.

I'd rather just ban cars from the downtown core. ;-)

The shame of it is... someone knew what they were doing, because they got a usable product out the door. It kinda sucked at certain things, but that's generally true of every first release. So with a reasonable business plan, they might have actually benefitted from their success. Now they're broke, just somewhat later than if they'd not bothered at all.

I've now confirmed the ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard has no TPM, and did not even include a socket for adding it after the fact. Would you care to be condescending again?

Nope, Athlon II x6. Don't have SSE 4.1 or 4.2 either, can't run Cyberpunk 2077. I don't even have UEFI! I'm pretty sure I don't have any TPM at all.

If you're wondering why so many recent telescopes seem to be wide-angle survey telescopes, this is why. We've gotten to the point where the precision of incoming data is sufficient for first-order analysis. Now the priority is on collecting such data from huge swaths of the sky -- basically anywhere our own galaxy isn't screening us. The problem used to be that there wasn't time to analyze that much data, but then we started to realize how much more information is still in unprocessed raw data, even decades after the event, and we knew Moore's Law would eventually catch up, and here we are. The new hotness is staring at everything at the same time and letting computers sort it out.